Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 2015-05-29 08:05, Per Jessen wrote:
Carlos E. R. wrote:
We were talking about what "safe" is. If you want to safeguard your data against your own mistakes, RAID is certainly not the right tool. A pair of big gardening gloves might be better :-)
And filesystem crash, and file corruption. Don't forget both.
I have not had either for years and years. I use a mature filesystem. Of course, I also run rsync backups.
But the problem is that many home users set up raid, because their main boards have it, in the belief that it makes their data safe. It doesn't.
Well, let's be honest - it does make their data a lot _safer_. Of all the things that can happen to the data on a harddisk, the major risk is harddisk failure (usually exactly 3 years after purchase), and RAID takes care of that (as long as you replace the failed disk as soon as you can). For the rest of it - fat fingers, flooding, fire, earthquakes - even filesystem crash and file corruption - you need a backup copy. -- Per Jessen, Zürich (23.0°C) http://www.hostsuisse.com/ - dedicated server rental in Switzerland. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org